Diet Leek and Potato Soup Recipe – comfort food from my childhood: Every weekend that I am in London I wander over to the Farmers’ Market at Oval. My first stop is always the same. I go to the first farm stall to buy chicken carcasses – 4 for a pound. I boil them up […]
Masterclass, Recipe and Tips at the Jumeirah Lowndes
Jumeirah Lowndes Terrace BBQ Class – Low Calorie Thai marinated tiger prawns With a faltering attempt at Spring this week and a cloudless blue sky this afternoon, this particular post seems almost relevant. On the afternoon of the planned barbeque demonstration at the Jumeirah Lowndes Hotel, however, a thunderstorm, hail and fierce winds had me […]
5:2 Diet Curried Parsnip Soup
Curried Parsnip Soup for the 5:2 Diet. I didn’t plan to write this recipe for curried parsnip soup up on London-Unattached nor was I doing a 5:2 diet fast day when I made it, but when I was busy eating it yesterday for lunch and tweeting (yes I know…it’s sad!) three people asked me how […]
5-2 Diet Made to Measure Vegetable Curry
Low-Calorie Vegetable Curry for the 5-2 Diet: I was sent a large box of rather beautiful organic fruit and vegetables from Soil and Seed last week. Now, when I was asked if I would like to trial one of the boxes I looked at the range currently on offer and was a little bit thrown. […]
5:2 Diet Tips
5-2 Diet Tips – Eat Well and Cook Less? OK, a guilty little secret about me and the 5-2 fast diet. I enjoy cooking on 5-2 diet fast days. Maybe a masochistic tendency, maybe just wanting to keep busy. But like everyone there are days when I simply don’t have time to make home-made soups. […]
Greek Yoghurt Stuffed Sea Bream and the 5:2 Diet
A Greek Recipe for the 5:2 Diet and some Hellenic Memories: My first visit to Greece was a shock. I was on a Schools Cruise – in the 1970s some of the cruise liners used to rent out space in the bows of the ship to school groups. We flew from London to Athens into […]
Low Calorie Bolognese with Vegetable Spaghetti
Cutting Calories for the 5:2 Diet – Spaghetti Bolognese: I’m back in the UK after a couple of trips abroad and on the 5:2 diet trying to lose some of the weight I’ve gained and to continue to lose a bit more. For me, restarting a diet is the hardest time, so I try my […]
5:2 Diet Recipes Celery and Spinach Soup
Unplanned 5:2 diet fast and a 5:2 Soup Recipe! OK, yesterday I might just have overdone things a bit – hence the idea that I might need an extra 5:2 diet day (does that make it 4:3?). Lunch was a review meal at Kitchen Italia and Dinner another review meal at Bombay Brasserie. It would […]
5-2 Diet Lemon and Coriander Chicken
5-2 Diet – Recipes for the 5-2 Diet: Now, I am still doing the 5-2 diet. I am really encouraged by the weight loss so far, and I am hoping that I am also getting some of the health benefits. I watched the Horizon programme, Eat, Fast and Live Longer which highlighted research that has […]
5-2 Diet Recipe and Celeriac – a REALLY Useful Ingredient
5:2 Diet Recipe – Celeriac and Watercress Soup My holiday in Sicily and a backload of work has meant I’ve really been slacking a bit with the 5:2 diet and low calorie recipes. When I have managed a 5:2 diet fast day, the food I’ve eaten has been extremely simple and not really worthy of […]